The list of people telling my wife and I that we should give my boy a sibling is growing by the day. One of my own brothers, the oldest, has joined the ranks of folk in favor of us adding number two. Me, I'm more of a "why gamble" kind of guy. My son was born healthy, [...]
I don't usually like to talk about my commute. It exhausts me just thinking about it and most people I know don't believe me when I tell them anyway. But I feel like sharing my family's misery so here it goes in boring detail: 5:00am - Alarm goes off in Queens (two seconds later I [...]
Do you wanna know how I personally know that the cold/flu season is a real phenomenon and not something made up by vaccine companies and the CDC? Well here it is: My son simultaneously coughed and sneezed into my mouth this morning as I was buckling him into his car booster seat. It tasted pretty much like my own spit and [...]
The friggin' holidays. I have a love/hate thing with the "season." I love it because I have a kid, and kids make every holiday a little better (and a little more stressful). I hate it because I have a kid and everyone wants us to drag him from house to house spreading cheer. Yes, cheer. [...]
I've said it before, and I'm saying it again: I'm not an academic. No one will ever say my name in the same breath as Cornel West's or Skip Gates'. I know what I know through reading and living. That's all. I write what I feel and I hope that others will either be able to relate, or at least [...]